Speedway discipline annoys society
PA Wellington The Wellington Stock Car Society is seeking the dismissal of two Speedway Control Board officials and an inquiry into safety at the Te Marua track after a driver was seriously injured in an accident on Saturday night. Mr Wayne Matthews of Wainuiomata is in a fair condition in Hutt Hospital with head and eye injuries received when his car was shunted into a fence by another in the first lap of a second race. According to Stock Car Society president (Mr Des St Claire) there was “nothing sinister" about the accident, it was just part of the normal stock car racing excitement.
He said the driver who hit Mr Matthews, Mr Graeme Robertson, was disciplined by the Speedway Control Board steward after the race. Society committee members met on Sunday morning and decided to fight the disciplinary action which suspends Mr Robertson for two weeks, until a board inquiry is completed. They want two control board officials—the course clerk Mr Tony Nesbitt and steward Mr Alan King — to be dismissed or disciplined. Mr King said a board inquiry into the incident began on Monday. It would be a lengthy one and he could not judge when it would be completed.
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